Chapter 3: Installing Drivers and Making Connections. Avid Technology Fast Track Solo, Fast Track Solo with Pro Tools Express

Chapter 3: Installing Drivers and Making

Connections

Installing Fast Track Solo

Drivers

Mac OS X

Fast Track Solo is a class-compliant device for

Mac OS X, so no drivers are required.

iOS

Fast Track Solo is an iOS-compliant device for iPad, so no drivers are required.

Windows

Do not start this procedure with your Fast

Track Solo connected to your computer.

To install the Fast Track Solo driver:

1 Ensure that Fast Track Solo is not connected to your computer.

2 Download the Fast Track Solo driver from www.avid.com/drivers.

3 Locate and double-click Install Avid Fast Track

Solo.exe.

4 Follow the on-screen instructions.

You may be notified that the driver being installed has not passed Windows Logo testing, or asked whether the program you wish to run is a trusted application. Click “Install.”

5 Once the installation is complete and your computer has been restarted, connect Fast Track

Solo to any available USB port on your computer.

6 When the Found New Hardware Wizard dialog appears, select “Install the software automatically” and click “Next.”

7 Click “Finish” once the software has been installed.

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Hardware Connections

Connecting Fast Track Solo to a

Computer

Once you have installed the driver (Windows only), connect Fast Track Solo to any available

USB port on your computer. Fast Track Solo is powered over the USB bus from your computer.

Fast Track Solo supports USB 1.1 or higher.

However, on computers running Windows 7, be sure to connect Fast Track Solo to a USB

2 port. USB 3 is not currently supported with

Fast Track Solo on Windows 7.

Connecting Fast Track Solo to an iPad

Connect your iPad to the Tablet port on the back panel of Fast Track Solo.

When using Fast Track Solo with an iPad, you will need to power Fast Track Solo using the USB power adapter that was included with your iPad (or with a USB power adapter purchased separately).

Connecting a Microphone

Connect a microphone to the Microphone input on the front panel of Fast Track Solo using a standard

XLR microphone cable. If you are connecting a microphone that requires phantom power, be sure to enable the 48V switch on the back panel of Fast

Track Solo.

Connecting an Instrument

Connect an instrument (such as an electric guitar or bass) to the Instrument input using a standard 1/4inch instrument cable.

Connecting Headphones

Connect stereo headphones to the 1/4-inch TRS

Headphone output on the front panel.

Connecting Speakers

Connect the Line Output jacks on the back panel of

Fast Track Solo to the inputs of a mixer, stereo power amplifier, or powered studio monitors using

RCA cables (note that RCA to 1/4-inch or XLR adapters may be required).

When connecting speakers, make sure that the speakers are powered off. Turn your speakers on only after you have connected

Fast Track Solo to a host computer or iPad and Fast Track Solo is fully powered on.

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